This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They’re even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation.
Then Jordan dumps Courtney — for a girl he met on the Internet.
It’s too late to change plans, so the road trip is on. Courtney’s heartbroken, but figures she can tough it out for a few days. La la la — this is Courtney pretending not to care.
But in a strange twist, Jordan cares. A lot.
Turns out, he’s got a secret or two that he’s not telling Courtney. And it has everything to do with why they broke up, why they can’t get back together, and how, in spite of it all, this couple is destined for each other.
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Jenny Han - To All The Boys I've Loved Before
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.
Jessica Park - Flat-Out Celeste
Whether you were charmed by Celeste in Flat-Out Love or are meeting her for the first time, this book is a joyous celebration of differences, about battling private wars that rage in our heads and in our hearts, and—very much so— this is a story about first love.
For high-school senior Celeste Watkins, every day is a brutal test of bravery. And Celeste is scared. Alienated because she’s too smart, her speech too affected, her social skills too far outside the norm, she seems to have no choice but to retreat into isolation.
But college could set her free, right? If she can make it through this grueling senior year, then maybe. If she can just find that one person to throw her a lifeline, then maybe, just maybe.
Justin Milano, a college sophomore with his own set of quirks, could be that person to pull her from a world of solitude. To rescue her—that is, if she’ll let him.
Together, they may work. Together, they may save each other. And together they may also save another couple—two people Celeste knows are absolutely, positively flat-out in love.
Heather Vogel Frederick - Wish You Were Eyre
The book club says bon voyage to Concord and bonjour to France!
It’s a dream come true for Megan, who’s jet-setting to Paris for Fashion Week with Gigi. Meanwhile, back in Concord, Mrs. Wong decides to run for mayor, so Emma and Stewart team up to make her campaign a success. Jess and Cassidy are also hoping for victories, Jess in the a cappella finals with the MadriGals and Cassidy in the national hockey championships with her teammates. In the midst of it all, the girls—along with their Wyoming pen pals, who drop in for a visit over Spring Break—dive into Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre. Some real life romance follows, as Becca may have found a Mr. Rochester of her own.
And then there’s the matter of a certain wedding. The book club girls, their families, the British Berkeley brothers, and even Stinkerbelle will be attending the ceremony, which means there might be some bumps before the bride waltzes down the aisle…
Rebecca Donovan - Reason to Breathe
"No one tried to get involved with me, and I kept to myself. This was the place where everything was supposed to be safe and easy. How could Evan Mathews unravel my constant universe in just one day?"
He knows there’s something more to the girl sitting in the back of the class the moment he sees her. She’s beautiful, intelligent, and athletic – but she slips quietly through the crowded halls, trying not to exist. Determined to get to know the elusive girl, Evan soon discovers…
Emma Thomas is hiding a terrible a secret.
Reason to Breathe is an electrifying page turner from start to finish, a unique tale of life-changing love, unspeakable cruelty, and one girl’s fragile grasp of hope.
Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.
As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it’s a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy’s uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way.
A riveting and astonishing story.
Tammara Webber - Easy
When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she’s single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, stalked by her ex’s frat brother, and failing a class for the first time in her life.
Her econ professor gives her an email address for Landon, the class tutor, who shows her that she’s still the same intelligent girl she’s always been. As Jacqueline becomes interested in more from her tutor than a better grade, his teasing responses make the feeling seem mutual. There’s just one problem—their only interactions are through email.
Meanwhile, a guy in her econ class proves his worth the first night she meets him. Nothing like her popular ex or her brainy tutor, Lucas sits on the back row, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. At a downtown club, he disappears after several dances that leave her on fire. When he asks if he can sketch her, alone in her room, she agrees—hoping for more.
Then Jacqueline discovers a withheld connection between her supportive tutor and her seductive classmate, her ex comes back into the picture, and her stalker escalates his attention by spreading rumors that they’ve hooked up. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.
Bria Quinlan - Secret Life
Rachel Wells is a liar—big time. No one outside her family knows about the panic attacks or meds, the weekly therapy drive-bys or the “safe” outfit. If she could hide it all from her string of ex-boyfriends and her best friend Amy, then why should anything change? But, when the one guy as messed up as she is blackmails her into helping him, life goes from closely restrained to out of control.
Sometimes choosing between sanity and love is the craziest thing of all.
Bria Quinlan - Secret Girlfriend
Since her mom died, Amy Whalen’s been invisible—but not in the cool, superpower kind of way. Overlooked at school and ignored at home, Amy holds tight to her few constants: running, painting, and her long-held crush on soccer god, Chris Kent. But as senior year nears, Chris doesn’t just notice her, he needs her.
Amy will agree to almost anything to be with him.
Everything is great—sort of—until Luke Parker shows up for soccer tryouts and sees through every one of Amy’s defenses. When Luke decides he wants Chris’s spot on the team and wouldn’t sneeze at the captain’s jersey either their rivalry spins out of control.
It doesn’t help that Luke also wants the girl Chris kept hidden all summer: AMY.
Jennifer L. Armentrout - Obsidian
Starting over sucks.
When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, outhouses, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring. Until I spotted my hot neighbor with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.
And then he opened his mouth.
Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something…unexpected happens.
The hot alien living next door marked me.
You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and the mark he left on me has me lit up like Las Vegas strip to the bad guys. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades. If I don't kill him first, that is.
And then things got really bad…
Leila Howland - Nantucket Blue
For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family. A summer when she’ll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers. A summer to surpass all dreams.
Some of this turns out to be true. Some of it doesn’t.
When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy that forces the girls apart, Jules becomes a stranger whom Cricket wonders whether she ever really knew. And instead of lying on the beach working on her caramel-colored tan, Cricket is making beds and cleaning bathrooms to support herself in paradise for the summer.
But it’s the things Cricket hadn’t counted on--most of all, falling hard for someone who should be completely off-limits--that turn her dreams into an exhilarating, bittersweet reality.
A beautiful future is within her grasp, and Cricket must find the grace to embrace it. If she does, her life could be the perfect shade of Nantucket blue.
Jenny Downham - Before I Die
Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of “normal” life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.
Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, are all painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time finally runs out.
Hannah Moskowitz - Invincible Summer
Noah’s happier than I’ve seen him in months. So I’d be an awful brother to get in the way of that. It’s not like I have some relationship with Melinda. It was just a kiss. Am I going to ruin Noah’s happiness because of a kiss?
Across four sun-kissed, drama-drenched summers at his family’s beach house, Chase is falling in love, falling in lust, and trying to keep his life from falling apart. But some girls are addictive....
Not your typical beach read.
Molly McAdams - Taking Chances
Eighteen year old Harper has grown up under her career Marine of a father's thumb. Ready to live life her own way and experience things she's only ever heard of from the jarheads in her father's unit; she's on her way to college at San Diego State University.
Thanks to her new roommate, Harper is introduced to a world of parties, gorgeous guys, family and emotions. Some she wasn't expecting yet, and others she never knew she was missing.
She finds herself being torn in two as she quickly falls in love with her boyfriend Brandon, and her roommate's brother Chase. Covered in tattoos, known for fighting in the Underground and ridiculously muscled...they're exactly what she was always warned to stay away from, but just what she needs. Despite their dangerous looks and histories, both adore and would do anything for Harper, including stepping back if it means she's happy.
Her first year away is turning out to be near perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything.
Due to sexual situations and language, this is Mature YA/New Adult. Recommended for ages 17+
Polly Shulman - Enthusiasm
There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an Enthusiast.? Julie knows from bitter experience: her best friend, Ashleigh, is an Enthusiast. Ashleigh's current fancy is also Julie?s own passion, Pride and Prejudice, and the heroine's quest for True Love. And so Julie finds herself swept along with Ashleigh, dressed in vintage frocks and sneaking into a dance at the local all-boys? prep school. There they discover several likely candidates for True Love, including the handsome and sensitive Parr. And Julie begins to wonder if maybe this obsession of Ashleigh's isn't so bad after all...
Kerstin Gier - Smaragdzöld
Mit tesz az, akinek összetörték a szívét? Úgy van. Telefonál a legjobb barátnőjével, csokoládét majszol és hetekig dagonyázik a boldogtalanságban. Csak az a bökkenő, hogy az akarata ellenére időutazóvá vált Gwendolynnak egészen más dolgokra kell tartalékolnia az energiáit: például a túlélésre. Mert azok a szálak, amelyeket a kétes hírű Saint Germain gróf még a múltban illesztett egymáshoz, immár a jelenben is veszélyes hálóvá szövődtek.
Ahhoz, hogy felfedjék a titkot, Gideonnak és Gwendolynnak nem elég eltáncolni egy menüettet a 17. század egyik legpompásabb bálján, hanem hanyatt-homlok kell belevetniük magukat a kalandokba bármelyik évről is legyen szó...
Érzelmi hullámvasút az évszázadokon keresztül: Gideon és Gwen kalandjai Kerstin Gier, kitűnő bestseller-szerző tollából.
Beleszeretsz!
Sherry Gammon - Szerethetetlen
A tizenhét éves Maggie Brown kiugró arccsontjával és karikás szemével a kábítószeres modellek mintapéldánya lehetne. Maggie problémáját azonban nem a drogok, hanem az anyja jelenti. A lány ráadásul egyre jobban belegabalyodik Seth Prescottba, az új srácba a suliban, és attól fél, hogy a fiú is cserben fogja hagyni, mint mindenki más. Seth Prescott a rendőrség beépített embereként került a Port Fare High iskolába, de munkája dacára beleszeret Maggie-be. Miközben Seth azon fáradozik, hogy a New York állambeli Port Fare-t megszálló szadista drogdílereket kifüstölje a kisvárosból, a hajsza halálosra fordul, és Maggie élete is veszélybe kerül. Seth és Maggie önmagukat is megismerik humorral tarkított, összetört szívekkel övezett, romantikus útjukon, és eközben a világuk mindörökre megváltozik.
Sherry Gammon első regénye, a Szerethetetlen egy trilógia első kötete. A sorozat az emberi szellem erejét és kitartását hirdeti – és azt, hogy soha nem szabad feladni, különösen ha szerelemről van szó.
Gayle Forman - Just One Day
A breathtaking journey toward self-discovery and true love, from the author of If I Stay
When sheltered American good girl Allyson "Lulu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.
Just One Day is the first in a sweepingly romantic duet of novels. Willem’s story - Just One Year - is coming soon!
Joss Stirling - Lélektársak - Crystal
Még több kaland, még több szerelem - a Lélektársak-trilógia befejező része végre magyarul is!
Crystal Brook a család fekete bárányának számított; senki sem vette észre, hogy neki is savant képességei vannak. Eddig... Mikor nővérével, Diamonddal Denverbe utaznak, egy véletlen folytán megismerkednek a nagyon dögös és lehengerlő Benedict testvérekkel. Diamond egy pillanat alatt fülig szerelmes lesz, és hamarosan jegygyűrű csillog az ujján. Crystalt azonban nemcsak, hogy nem hatja meg a fiúk sármja, de úgy érzi, Xav Benedictnél idegesítőbb fickóval nem találkozott még az életben.
Diamond esküvőjét Olaszországban, Velencében tartják; itt gyűlik össze a két család. Közös ellenségük végre elérkezettnek látja az időt a támadásra. Crystalnek és Xavnek össze kell fognia, ha meg akarják védeni szeretteiket és megfejteni egy rég elfeledett titkot.
Jamie McGuire - Gyönyörű sorscsapás
Az új Abby tökéletes. Nem iszik, kerüli a káromkodást, a pólói kifogástalan rendben sorakoznak a szekrényében – azt hiszi, elegendő távolság választja el a múltjában rejlő sötétségtől. De amikor megérkezik a legjobb barátjával, Americával a főiskolára, az új élet felé vezető útja gyorsan megváltozik.
Travis izmos testét tetoválások borítják, tipikus laza srác, azt testesíti meg, amire Abbynek szüksége van – és amit szeretne elkerülni. Abby távolságtartása felkelti a kíváncsiságát, és cselhez folyamodik egy egyszerű fogadás segítségével: ha ő veszít, önmegtartóztató marad egy hónapig, ha Abby marad alul a játszmában, Travisnél fog lakni ugyanennyi ideig. Travis nem is sejti, hogy a párjával hozta össze a sors, akármelyikük is nyer.
Szerelem és játék keveredik a népszerű írónő, Jamie McGuire regényében, amely a fiatal olvasók körében nagy népszerűségre számíthat. Ne hagyd ki, játszd meg te is a tétjeidet! Szerinted Abby nyer vagy Travis? Vagy ebben a játékban nincsenek vesztesek?
"Bámulatos olvasmány, csupa nagyszerű szereplővel, izgalmas és nagy sóhajtozásokra késztető pillanatokkal, drámával, nevetéssel és széles érzelmi skálával. Komoly hírnevet kívánunk, Jamie!"
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Rainbow Rowell - Fangirl (angol)
A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.
Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan . . .
But for Cath, being a fan is her life — and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
Or will she just go on living inside somebody else’s fiction?